I dreamed I had an interview with God.

“So you would like to interview me?” God asked.

“If you have the time” I said.

God smiled. “My time is eternity.”
“What questions do you have in mind for me?”

“What surprises you most about humankind?”

God answered…
“That they get bored with childhood, they rush to grow up, and then
long to be children again.”

“That they lose their health to make money… and then lose their money to restore their health.”

“That by thinking anxiously about the future, they forget the present,
such that they live in neither the present nor the future.”

“That they live as if they will never die, and die as though they had never lived.”

God’s hand took mine and we were silent for a while.

And then I asked…
“As a parent, what are some of life’s lessons you want your children to learn?”

“To learn they cannot make anyone love them. All they can do
is let themselves be loved.”

“To learn that it is not good to compare themselves to others.”

“To learn to forgive by practicing forgiveness.”

“To learn that it only takes a few seconds to open profound wounds in those they love, and it can take many years to heal them.”

“To learn that a rich person is not one who has the most, but is one who needs the least.”

“To learn that there are people who love them dearly, but simply have not yet learned how to express or show their feelings.”

“To learn that two people can look at the same thing and see it differently.”

“To learn that it is not enough that they forgive one another, but they must also forgive themselves.”

“Thank you for your time,” I said humbly.

“Is there anything else you would like your children to know?”

God smiled and said,
“Just know that I am here… always.”

-author unknown

Have you watched Fireproof? There are a lot of people who recommends me to watch Fireproof. Fireproof is an inspirational movie created by Sherwood Pictures. The same creator of Facing the Giants. They have successfully deliver a strong message again from the movie. I never expect to get responses on my articles about Facing the Giants, especially from their PR team. I just watched the movie last week and there is a great thing that I learn from the movie that I feel it would be great if I shared it in here.

Fireproof is a movie about a guy, Caleb, a veteran firefighter trying to save his own marriage from burning to the ground. His wife already pull the trigger to get the divorce, and he is also ready to let bullet hit him, but his father give him 40 days ‘Love Dare’ quest for him to save his marriage from burning down. Well, as expected, this movie is about love and relationship. There are 2 things from the movie that I feel worth to talk about :

1. What Love is All About
After about days 20th+ of his Love Dare attempts, with every single daily attempts was rejected by his wife, Caleb is about to give up saying that his wife doesn’t deserve this efforts. He said “How am I supposed to show love for somebody who over and over and over constantly rejects me?” and his father, John quietly responds “That’s a good question, I couldn’t truly love your mother till I understood what love really was”

Seems like from the movie, Love is all about giving and not expecting back anything. But does love is really about giving and giving and giving only? I wonder who on earth is able to give love only without receiving. People will definitely argue about this point. But, I feel receiving is also as vital as giving in relationship. The ability to receive is what makes us lovable. If you’re a great giver, but a lousy receiver, then you may be able to love, but make it hard for yourself to be loved.

2. God is The Source of Love
Back to the story again, other than Caleb doesn’t really understand what love is about, John also said that Caleb can’t love his wife because he himself doesn’t have one. “You can’t love her…because you can’t give her what you don’t have.”

Yes, I also agree, you can’t give something you don’t have(for everything). The movie showing Caleb understand and obtain Love from God, then he’s able to love his wife unconditionally. I wont spoil how he is finally save his marriage from fire, you gotta watch it!

Here are few good quotes from Fireproof that you may give a thought about it as well:
“Never ever leave your partner—especially in a fire.”

Agree, I know it’s harder than it’s said, but please dont leave your partner, especially your life partner.

“You can’t just follow your heart. Your heart can be deceived. You have to lead your heart.”

Hm.. I guess it will be better if they state it as don’t blindly follow your emotions. Yes, sometimes our heart can be deceived by our own thought that most often is negative, full of worried and fear, and the worst part is that it is not true at all. Remember, thought lead to feeling, so watch your thought

“When most people promise ‘for better or for worse,’ they only mean for the better.”

Hate to admit this.. but it’s always the case..

“Fireproof doesn’t mean that a fire will never come, but that when it comes, you’ll be able to withstand it.”

“A woman’s like a rose. If you treat her right, she’ll bloom. If you don’t, she’ll wilt.”

Have you seen Facing The Giants yet? Yesterday I watched Facing The Giants and I absolutely love it, I love Christian movie and football combine together. I was so blessed watching Facing The Giants beginning to the end of the movie. Facing The Giants is a movie about Christian high school football coach who trusts God to do the impossible; how he turns his underdog football team faces their giants of fear and failure on and off the field to surprising results. All believers and ‘want-to’ believers should definitely see this movie. I recommend you to watch the movie even though perhaps you’re not Christian; I believe you will get inspired by the movie as well. There are so much thing you can learn from the movie that you can apply it into your daily life to your success. Facing The Giants will teach you how to overcoming great obstacles, something everyone faces and how to celebrates the power of the human spirit to rise above what we think is possible.

1. Face Your Fear

In the movie, there is one good soccer players who want to join the team for football kicker position, but he doesn’t want to try because he’s so afraid that he couldn’t make it into the team. Then his father said ‘what have you got to lose if you tried’, the worst case is you’re not in the team, but you’re already not in the team anyway, so why don’t just give it a try.

Sometimes in our life we want something so bad but we fear we will fail and won’t be able to achieve it, then we never do anything about it. Fear is actually normal, but don’t let it conquer you. Keep your mind clear and do it anyway, you’ll be amazed with the results. What have you got to lose anyways?

Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen gave a very good definition of fear:
Fantasized
Experiences
Appearing
Real

Fear is no more than your fantasized experiences. The reality may be totally different if only you try. What’s the worst that could actually happen? Probably less serious than you think

2. Face Your Disbelief

Inside Facing The Giants, Brock couldn’t believe that his team could actually win and this is why they always lose, because they have already believed they will lose before even trying. But when he and his team-mates got rid of this thinking, they were ready for great things to happen.

The secret is damn simple: If you can’t believe the best will happen, then it probably won’t. But if you believe the best will happen, it probably will. So, expect and work for the best and nothing less!

Here are my favorite quotes from Facing The Giants:

Coach Taylor: “[In order for God to do great things with this team,] we need to give Him our best in every area. And if we win, we praise Him; and if we lose we praise Him. Either way. We honor Him with our actions and our attitudes.”

I love this attitudes, when you praise him no matter what happened in your life, God will blessed you even more. In the movie, there is one match where the team lose the game even when they tried their best, they’re so disappointed but still praise Him. It turns out the enemy cheating during the game and the enemy team got disqualified later on. The bad thing happened in your life is not because of God wants it, if your attitude is still right toward Him, God will help you out.

Coach Taylor: “Your attitude is the aroma of your heart. If your attitude stinks, it means your heart’s not right.”

It’s so damn true.. I got to agree with this one

Coach Taylor to his wife, Brooke:”If the Lord never gives us children, will you still love Him?”

Probably this is the hardest question in your life as believers, if you want something so bad and God never gives it to you, will you still love Him? Watch the movie if you want to know what happened when his wife still choose to love Him even though the fact is too hard to accepted.

Coach Taylor: “I Feel like there are giants of fear and failure staring down at me waiting to crush me”… “I’m tired of being afraid”

Sometime, there is time for you to wake up and stand up from your own fear & failure.. keeping your fear will not bring you anywhere. Don’t let your fear keep sinking and drowning your from your life, it’s only your mind mumbling around, don’t let it conquer you. Enough is enough.. face your own fear. I’ll give you one good for sure way to eliminate your fear : Action! Trust me, just start do/move what you fear, and your fear will be gone instantly the moment you do it, the longer you wait, the bigger your fear & failure feeling will be

Coach Taylor: “You can’t judge people by their actions, and yourself by your intentions. It doesn’t work that way”.

Why harshly criticize yourself or anyone else? Criticizing yourself severely weakens your achievements and your growth at the same time. Insecurity is a very self-destructive behavior.